Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-03-05 Thread Marin Dimitrov


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> 
> I have also an other question.
> Do you you why they did not test postgressql ?
> 

I bet they failed to run it on NT (not a trivial task)


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Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-03-04 Thread Henrik Ekenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Hi,

I have also an other question.
Do you you why they did not test postgressql ?

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jesse, Rich wrote:

-!-Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek titled
-!-"Database Clash"?
-!-
-!-The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL rocked
-!-the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I investigated.
-!-I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
-!-Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
-!-
-!-According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
-!-processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
-!-"concurrent Web clients"?
-!-
-!-Anyone have a thought?
-!-
-!-
-!-Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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Re[2]: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-03-01 Thread dgoulet

I find the eWeek comparison very interesting.  It's one comparison that does
have some credibility since they used the same hardware, OS and patch level, and
accilinary software.  The only thing that changed was the database software. 
True, someone who knows Oracle well could have tuned it to do better.  But with
the cost of Oracle attached to a web server a cheaper alternative for 'non
critical' data is more than welcome.  I've a pile of data that we want to
publish to the web, would be static during the day, and is completely
re-buildable from internal data sources.  Sounds like a perfect application of
MySql to me.  BTW: I wonder why they omitted my other favorite open source DB,
PostGres.

Also it was great to see Oracle knock the wind out of Sql*server & DB2.

Dick Goulet
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:31:32PM -0800, Fisher, Julie wrote:
> And if you go to their web site www.mysql.com, they "crash me" compare
> against Oracle 8.1.6 and damn, they appear to look good.  "They gots lots
> more green stars than Oracle, by george."  Of course most of those
> categories are SQL functions/capabilities.  They don't even touch on memory
> allocation, types of backups/archiving, so on and so forth.  And of course
> the lack of column constraints,table constraints, foreign keys... just
> noise.  Wait!! Dammit Oracle!! Give me the tinyint type!  MySQL has it!
> 
> ...maybe I'm just being fussy

Also, FYI, the performance comparisons at www.mysql.com are based on an
*out of the box* Oracle configuration. No tuning at all. You can guess
how well Oracle performs.

They have told me that they'd be happy to accept an updated comparison
with a well tuned Oracle installation. Should be easy to do for
someone here, they supply all the benchmark script and an automated
harness for it.

Tim.

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Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-03-01 Thread Tim Bunce

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:31:32PM -0800, Fisher, Julie wrote:
> And if you go to their web site www.mysql.com, they "crash me" compare
> against Oracle 8.1.6 and damn, they appear to look good.  "They gots lots
> more green stars than Oracle, by george."  Of course most of those
> categories are SQL functions/capabilities.  They don't even touch on memory
> allocation, types of backups/archiving, so on and so forth.  And of course
> the lack of column constraints,table constraints, foreign keys... just
> noise.  Wait!! Dammit Oracle!! Give me the tinyint type!  MySQL has it!
> 
> ...maybe I'm just being fussy

Also, FYI, the performance comparisons at www.mysql.com are based on an
*out of the box* Oracle configuration. No tuning at all. You can guess
how well Oracle performs.

They have told me that they'd be happy to accept an updated comparison
with a well tuned Oracle installation. Should be easy to do for
someone here, they supply all the benchmark script and an automated
harness for it.

Tim.

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> ready for prime time...
> 
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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Fisher, Julie

And if you go to their web site www.mysql.com, they "crash me" compare
against Oracle 8.1.6 and damn, they appear to look good.  "They gots lots
more green stars than Oracle, by george."  Of course most of those
categories are SQL functions/capabilities.  They don't even touch on memory
allocation, types of backups/archiving, so on and so forth.  And of course
the lack of column constraints,table constraints, foreign keys... just
noise.  Wait!! Dammit Oracle!! Give me the tinyint type!  MySQL has it!

...maybe I'm just being fussy


Julie Fisher
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Also the article did not mention that in a lot of ways, MySQL is not nearly
ready for prime time...

MOYMMV

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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Orr, Steve

Well there's prime time then there's prime time...
i.e. Prime time on the major networks vs. prime time on Nickelodian

MySQL is in "prime time" production on many substantial web sites but it's
not a major network or an Amazon.com/Oracle type of prime time.

There's a place for Nickelodian too.

MySQL 4.X appears to be a substantial upgrade from MySQL 3.X but someone
else on the list said MySQL 4.0 isn't supposed to be released until the
end of the year. It almost seems like eWeek is trying to put MySQL is a
good light but who knows. 


Steve Orr



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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Jon Baker
Title: RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek





I agree.  I've been following MySQL for a while and it does have it's place, but would not want a data warehouse on it.

 http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=708&a=18266,00.asp


Another article on MySQL from same source.


Jon


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Also the article did not mention that in a lot of ways, MySQL is not nearly
ready for prime time...


MOYMMV


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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Freeman, Robert

Also the article did not mention that in a lot of ways, MySQL is not nearly
ready for prime time...

MOYMMV

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Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Ora NT DBA



HI Igor,

All I meant was that I couldn't get to the article because sql server couldn't
except
more connections.  

I have only "browsed" the article but found it interesting that the
db that was hard to use "dusted" all the ones that were "easy" when they
had no
help from "Oracle Experts".  

John


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  Do you mean it was SQL Server DBAs tuning Oracle in this test, becausethat's what they are using for their web-site?Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED]- Original Message -To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:58 PM
  
Interesting,  I went to the web page and clicked on the link"Putting database performance to the test"  and  got the following messageCould not Connect to DB:[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]SQL Server does notexist or access denied.Oh well,  maybe they were mad because they lost!John[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  At first glance it looks like they could have done more to tune Oracle.Certain tables could have been cached (or buffer pools could have beenused). They're only using a 4K db block so it would have been nice to seetests with 8K and 16K db blocks. Sort area size may need tuning. I'd like
  
  
  to
  

  see some tkprof on the queries and see what the most expensive queries
  
  
  are
  

  in terms of CPU, I/O, and number of executions. It would be nice to seedatabase results on Linux... It would be cool to see what some focusedtuning efforts could do but who has time for that?Anyone have any other tuning suggestions for eWeek?Time for the tuning DBA guru's to shine. :-)-Original Message-Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:53 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LAnybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek
  
  
  titled
  

  "Database Clash"?The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL
  
  
  rocked
  

  the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I
  
  
  investigated.
  

  I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:Download our configuration and tuning scripts".According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS andprocesses in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000"concurrent Web clients"?Anyone have a thought?Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
  
  
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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Jesse, Rich

On the MTS part, my faux pas.  I saw the first "dispatchers" commented out
along with the other "mts%" params.

Also, on closer inspection, I was looking at
"create_nile2_database_details.htm" in the "C - Create Benchmark Database"
folder in the .zip file when I saw that "processes" was set to 150.  Perhaps
they made changes to the init.ora (from the "B - Configure Database Server"
folder) after an initial GUI DB create?

Thanks, Brian, and thanks all else that pointed out the JDBC connection
pooling.  I've been trying to take a look at that stuff, but I've got no
time here at work and I can't run Oracle at home on my Linux/Alpha box.


Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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Which docs?  I looked at the init.ora file, and it had:

processes=530

and MTS enabled.

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Rachel Carmichael wrote:

> they lie?
>
> --- "Jesse, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek
> > titled
> > "Database Clash"?
> >
> > The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL
> > rocked
> > the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I
> > investigated.
> > I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
> > Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
> >
> > According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS
> > and
> > processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
> > "concurrent Web clients"?
> >
> > Anyone have a thought?
> >
> >
> > Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Deshpande, Kirti


In additon.. here's a quote from the article: 

"Microsoft and Oracle both declined to be involved in the test-with their
database servers, we did all tuning ourselves with no vendor input." 

Not at all bad for Oracle to score high without any 'expert' tuning advice. 

But was this test worth ignoring for Larry??

The on-line poll on the web site was interesiting, though.. 
(Which server database is most critical to you organization?). 
Oracle 33.26% MySQL 19.99% SQLServer 15.91% when I voted.. 

- Kirti 



 

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At first glance it looks like they could have done more to tune Oracle.
Certain tables could have been cached (or buffer pools could have been
used). They're only using a 4K db block so it would have been nice to see
tests with 8K and 16K db blocks. Sort area size may need tuning. I'd like to
see some tkprof on the queries and see what the most expensive queries are
in terms of CPU, I/O, and number of executions. It would be nice to see
database results on Linux... It would be cool to see what some focused
tuning efforts could do but who has time for that? 

Anyone have any other tuning suggestions for eWeek? 

Time for the tuning DBA guru's to shine. :-)



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Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek titled
"Database Clash"?

The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL rocked
the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I investigated.
I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
Download our configuration and tuning scripts".

According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
"concurrent Web clients"?

Anyone have a thought?


Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread James McCann

I was involved in a similar thing a while ago, with a couple of different
databases including a new in memory database, which is meant to be 10 times
faster than Oracle.

And it was, until Oracle was tuned. It was a different story then!

Jim



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Do you mean it was SQL Server DBAs tuning Oracle in this test, because
that's what they are using for their web-site?

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
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> Interesting,  I went to the web page and clicked on the link
>
> "Putting database performance to the test"  and  got the following message
>
> Could not Connect to DB:
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]SQL Server does not
> exist or access denied.
>
> Oh well,  maybe they were mad because they lost!
>
> John
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >At first glance it looks like they could have done more to tune Oracle.
> >Certain tables could have been cached (or buffer pools could have been
> >used). They're only using a 4K db block so it would have been nice to see
> >tests with 8K and 16K db blocks. Sort area size may need tuning. I'd like
to
> >see some tkprof on the queries and see what the most expensive queries
are
> >in terms of CPU, I/O, and number of executions. It would be nice to see
> >database results on Linux... It would be cool to see what some focused
> >tuning efforts could do but who has time for that?
> >
> >Anyone have any other tuning suggestions for eWeek?
> >
> >Time for the tuning DBA guru's to shine. :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >-Original Message-
> >Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:53 AM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek
titled
> >"Database Clash"?
> >
> >The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL
rocked
> >the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I
investigated.
> >I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
> >Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
> >
> >According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
> >processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
> >"concurrent Web clients"?
> >
> >Anyone have a thought?
> >
> >
> >Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
USA
> >
>
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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Freeman, Robert

They used weblogic for the webserver. Typically it will keep several 
connections open, pooling them in essence. The article indicated that
*they* did all the Oracle tuning, and that Oracle did not send anyone
to help with the tuning process (unlike MySQL), so it's probably amazing
that they got the results they did. I don't think they lied, but I don't
think they probably realized that they could have possible eeked out
some additional performance had they worked it a bit harder with a
knowledgeable web DBA.

RF

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they lie?


--- "Jesse, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek
> titled
> "Database Clash"?
> 
> The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL
> rocked
> the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I
> investigated.
> I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
> Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
> 
> According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS
> and
> processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
> "concurrent Web clients"?
> 
> Anyone have a thought?
> 
> 
> Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Igor Neyman

Do you mean it was SQL Server DBAs tuning Oracle in this test, because
that's what they are using for their web-site?

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:58 PM


> Interesting,  I went to the web page and clicked on the link
>
> "Putting database performance to the test"  and  got the following message
>
> Could not Connect to DB:
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]SQL Server does not
> exist or access denied.
>
> Oh well,  maybe they were mad because they lost!
>
> John
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >At first glance it looks like they could have done more to tune Oracle.
> >Certain tables could have been cached (or buffer pools could have been
> >used). They're only using a 4K db block so it would have been nice to see
> >tests with 8K and 16K db blocks. Sort area size may need tuning. I'd like
to
> >see some tkprof on the queries and see what the most expensive queries
are
> >in terms of CPU, I/O, and number of executions. It would be nice to see
> >database results on Linux... It would be cool to see what some focused
> >tuning efforts could do but who has time for that?
> >
> >Anyone have any other tuning suggestions for eWeek?
> >
> >Time for the tuning DBA guru's to shine. :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >-Original Message-
> >Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:53 AM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek
titled
> >"Database Clash"?
> >
> >The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL
rocked
> >the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I
investigated.
> >I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
> >Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
> >
> >According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
> >processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
> >"concurrent Web clients"?
> >
> >Anyone have a thought?
> >
> >
> >Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
USA
> >
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Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Ora NT DBA

Interesting,  I went to the web page and clicked on the link

"Putting database performance to the test"  and  got the following message

Could not Connect to DB:
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]SQL Server does not 
exist or access denied.

Oh well,  maybe they were mad because they lost!

John

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>At first glance it looks like they could have done more to tune Oracle.
>Certain tables could have been cached (or buffer pools could have been
>used). They're only using a 4K db block so it would have been nice to see
>tests with 8K and 16K db blocks. Sort area size may need tuning. I'd like to
>see some tkprof on the queries and see what the most expensive queries are
>in terms of CPU, I/O, and number of executions. It would be nice to see
>database results on Linux... It would be cool to see what some focused
>tuning efforts could do but who has time for that? 
>
>Anyone have any other tuning suggestions for eWeek? 
>
>Time for the tuning DBA guru's to shine. :-)
>
>
>
>-Original Message-
>Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:53 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek titled
>"Database Clash"?
>
>The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL rocked
>the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I investigated.
>I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
>Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
>
>According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
>processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
>"concurrent Web clients"?
>
>Anyone have a thought?
>
>
>Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
>


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Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Suzy Vordos


I'm guessing JDBC connection pooling within WebLogic.

"Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> 
> Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek titled
> "Database Clash"?
> 
> The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL rocked
> the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I investigated.
> I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
> Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
> 
> According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
> processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
> "concurrent Web clients"?
> 
> Anyone have a thought?
> 
> Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Brian McGraw

Which docs?  I looked at the init.ora file, and it had:

processes=530

and MTS enabled.

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Rachel Carmichael wrote:

> they lie?
>
> --- "Jesse, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek
> > titled
> > "Database Clash"?
> >
> > The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL
> > rocked
> > the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I
> > investigated.
> > I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
> > Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
> >
> > According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS
> > and
> > processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
> > "concurrent Web clients"?
> >
> > Anyone have a thought?
> >
> >
> > Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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> > WI USA
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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread lembark



-- "Orr, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/28/02 10:08:30 -0800

> At first glance it looks like they could have done more to tune Oracle.

One of the specific points made in the article was that 
Oracle is something of a pain to tune. "Tunability" is 
only useful up to the point where competent people can
actually do it; after that it becomes a liability.

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Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael

they lie?


--- "Jesse, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek
> titled
> "Database Clash"?
> 
> The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL
> rocked
> the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I
> investigated.
> I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
> Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
> 
> According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS
> and
> processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
> "concurrent Web clients"?
> 
> Anyone have a thought?
> 
> 
> Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Cunningham, Gerald

I would guess that the webserver or app pools processes / shares Oracle
connections...


- JC

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Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek titled
"Database Clash"?

The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL rocked
the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I investigated.
I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
Download our configuration and tuning scripts".

According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
"concurrent Web clients"?

Anyone have a thought?


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RE: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Orr, Steve

At first glance it looks like they could have done more to tune Oracle.
Certain tables could have been cached (or buffer pools could have been
used). They're only using a 4K db block so it would have been nice to see
tests with 8K and 16K db blocks. Sort area size may need tuning. I'd like to
see some tkprof on the queries and see what the most expensive queries are
in terms of CPU, I/O, and number of executions. It would be nice to see
database results on Linux... It would be cool to see what some focused
tuning efforts could do but who has time for that? 

Anyone have any other tuning suggestions for eWeek? 

Time for the tuning DBA guru's to shine. :-)



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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:53 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek titled
"Database Clash"?

The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL rocked
the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I investigated.
I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
Download our configuration and tuning scripts".

According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
"concurrent Web clients"?

Anyone have a thought?


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Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Igor Neyman

May be they are multiplexing before connecting to oracle?

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> Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek
titled
> "Database Clash"?
>
> The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL rocked
> the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I
investigated.
> I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
> Download our configuration and tuning scripts".
>
> According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
> processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
> "concurrent Web clients"?
>
> Anyone have a thought?
>
>
> Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
USA
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Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-02-28 Thread Jesse, Rich

Anybody happen to see the cover story on the 02/25/2002 iss of eWeek titled
"Database Clash"?

The pretty graphs say that their tests showed that Oracle and MySQL rocked
the other DBs they tested (including MS SQueaL Server).  So I investigated.
I went to http://www.eweek.com/ and downloaded the "Online Exclusive:
Download our configuration and tuning scripts".

According to the Oracle setup docs in there, they're NOT using MTS and
processes in init.ora is 150.  So then how did they test for 1000
"concurrent Web clients"?

Anyone have a thought?


Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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